2021-5-27 18:56 |
In an announcement on Tuesday, SDF’s venture arm, Stellar Enterprise Fund, announced the multi-million funding round aims to boost the development of AirTM’s platform. Additionally, SDF will integrate Stellar blockchain to the platform in the coming year to make the transactions cheaper, a statement from the team reads.
Since the launch of the Enterprise Fund, this constitutes the largest ever investment from SDF. Previous investments by SDF include a $3 million funding round in Settle Network, an Argentine payments channel, and U.S.-based credits firm Tribal Credit, which also received $3 million at the end of April. These investments target the growth of digital payments and cross-border transfers across Latin American countries.
In a similar fashion, the $15 million investment will allow AirTM to enhance its financial services in Latin America while widening its market base. With the integration of Stellar, payments and cross-border transfers are expected to become cheaper and faster, which improves the financial access to Latin American people who have suffered under “fragmented financial systems” for long, SDF Executive Director Denelle Dixon said in the statement.
Adding to Dixon’s statement, AirTM CEO Ruben Galindo Steckel stated the investment would also allow businesses to flourish in Latin America – making them more compatible and open to the global economy. The investment further boosts the goal of the SDF to help “consumers and businesses throughout the developing world access stable money that holds its value” which “is instant to transfer with no fees, and can be withdrawn as local currency whenever, and wherever it’s needed” he continued.
Over the past six months, SDF also invested $5 million in blockchain payment firm, Wyre, to help introduce various payment application programming interfaces, commonly known as APIs, which can integrate with different apps within the Stellar ecosystem. In December, SDF invested $3 million (paid in Stellar Lumens, or XLM) to Settle to focus on fiat-to-crypto on-ramps and boost transactions across the LATAM region.
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